Old cartoon/movie with tiny character driving a toy red Chevy Bel Air

Question

I watched this Disney-style cartoon on TV between 1997-98 but it was probably much older than that since the car in question appears to be, if memory serves me right, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible which was probably a popular luxury car at the making of the animation.

The majority of the movie or episode was centered around this toy red hand-wound car and the small hero trying to tinker with it and dangerously drive it under normal-sized cars in traffic until it was somehow destroyed and he was thrown on a tiny deserted island.

The little guy really loved this toy car and was pretty broken up about it but since he was stuck he tried all sorts of tricks and gadgets to get off the island.

The little hero might have been a small robot like Gyro Gearloose's little helper. I just don't remember for sure.

Answer 1

Partial match: The 1963 short cartoon Krtek a autíčko (the mole and the little car) has what looks similar to a Chevy Bel Air convertible (I think; I actually know nothing about cars).

toy red hand-wound car: Check, the mole uses a wind-up key to to wind the car (the wind-up key is kind of a stand-in for ignition keys).

the small hero trying to tinker with it: Partial check. First, the mole tinkers with a human-sized car, then finds the broken toy and has it repaired by a futuristic automated "auto service" station.

and dangerously drive it under normal-sized cars in traffic: Check.

until it was somehow destroyed: Does not check. The mole drives it only after it had previously been destroyed.

and he was thrown on a tiny deserted island: Does not check. However, in the next episode, the mole flies a rocket to a tiny island where the rocket gets destroyed. Maybe OP is mixing up the two episodes?

The little guy really loved this toy car and was pretty broken up about it but since he was stuck he tried all sorts of tricks and gadgets to get off the island: Does not check. However, in the next episode, the mole is very sad about his broken rocket, and with help from beach and sea creatures, fixes his rocket to get off the island.

The little hero might have been a small robot like Gyro Gearloose's little helper. Does not check. The hero is a mole. However, there is another episode which has mole "clones", which are wind up toy robots.